Foyles

One complete day in London was devoted to Foyles.  A huge bookstore: Think about a very large exclusive books, and multiply that into five floors.  Then within that store is a department, not only a shelf, a whole department, named Silver Moon, and that is the sexuality and gender section!  Now you can see why we spent a whole day there! It was to die for.  I literally unpacked their whole transgender shelves, sat on the floor, and went through all the books, one by one!  The next step was to sort them into four groups: the can’t go without’s, the really must have’s, the must have’s and the nice to have’s. (The fifth group, stayed on the shelves – they were past their expiry date!)

This was a whole process, as you can imagine.  I thought that by employing this method, I could at least create guidelines of which ones to take, and which ones to leave.  At some stage I had to start making decisions.  I couldn’t.  The next way to try help make the decision, was, ok, admit it, my dear, beloved partner started adding Rand values to them, and we decided on an overall amount to be spent.  Still the cut-off system didn’t solve the problem completely for me, as I could only take the “can’t go without’s” and a few of the “really must have’s” We could not even touch the “must have’s”.  Where in South Africa in one bookstore can you pick and choose Trans books to the value of R1400, and leave more than double that quantity behind?! 
Needless to say with luggage MUCH heavier than we arrived with, and a femme in high heel boots,  it was no mean feat. It now entailed walking the whole way back from where we stayed, to the station, to go via three subways to Heathrow.

If you’re stupid – you will carry heavy loads.

I mean, what happened to Amazon.com? Don’t they exist anymore?